Author | Joseph L. Selby

Tag: wrongthink

  • You Gotta Fight for Your Right…to Read?

    I’ve offered tacit support of SPEAK during the flair-up against the comments made in Springfield last week. I didn’t hop on the bandwagon and speak out against it for a couple reasons. First, I’m fat, and doubt I could hop on a bandwagon if I wanted to. Second, I don’t think my message would reach…

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  • Know Your Footprint

    This was originally going to be part of my “Maximizing Social Media (part 2)” post, but that thing is already flipping long and at some point, you just stop reading super-long blog posts. Since it’s the weekend (when fewer people read blogs, statistically speaking), I thought I’d post this part here as a preamble to…

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  • Ponderings and Plannings

    A side note: I dislike “a novel” being included on a book cover unless the book’s title is “a novel.” I think it sounds pretentious. In fact, I think it’s intentionally pretentious to appeal to that category’s audience. I will, at some point, write a story and title it A NOVEL. Fuck your pretension. So,…

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  • Struggling with Voice

    As I get older and make a more concerted effort to write professionally, I do not write with the abandon that I did when I was young. A younger me wrote phonetically and with dialects whenever I wanted to express an accent. An older me mentions the accent, but only touches a few key words…

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